Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-20
C MISCELLANY.

Mr.. Jacobs has established an agency
for the twenty-five cent drawing at Ana
conda in the firm OF Crockett & King.
Pat Benson paid q fine of IS and costs
for a little hurrah he went on at the corner
of Main and Galena the other night.
A petition was filed in the Probate Court
Yesterday in re Chris. Hart for family al
lowance to his wife, Mrs. Sophy Hart.
The store of Sam Louis & Co., which has
been closed down for the last day or to
take stock, will be reopened on Monday.
Garfield Camp, Sons of Veterans, was
mustered in by Col. Gibbs OF Helena last
night. There are sixteen members in the
Camp at present.
Mrs. Myrtle Cooper. wife of w. P. Cooper,
of West VAUDEVILLE, will be buried from the
family residence at that place at 2 O'Clock
to-day.
Messrs. Lachman & Dunstan have re-
covered the stuff they lost track of after
the Renshaw Hall banquet and there will
be no prosecutions.
Amongst the many attractions at the
! Columbia Gardens to-day will be the re-
powned Aleck McGlue, who will stand at a
specified distance and allow you to throw
at him.
A new and gorgeous lamp IN front OF
Smiling Albert's place of business of Main
street will guide his friends thither on the
darkest nights in the future, advertising
his St. Louis Beer Hall.
Ed King, the brickmaker, is making ar
rangements to supply the whole of this
ma. ket with brick this fall. He reports
plenty of orders on hand, and has burned
about 4OO, 900 already this year.
Mesers. Murphy and Thompson, METAL
~lurgists of the Butte Reduction Works,
Ill .I,~~k1- -0 nm n -nnoc~oo+Sr~ %ws~ %ho~
oughly equipped for that kind OF business,
!! and will be away for q month or more.
The fellow, Dillon, who robbed his bene-
dollars on Thursday morning has been
arrested at Anaconda. Deputy Sheriff
Fish will bring him up from there to-day.
The Miners Union met last night and de-
cided to hold their picnic at Columbia Gar
dens on August 21st. The prizes offered
amount in the aggregate to $500. 1t will
be the biggest thing ever seen in Butte. A
detailed list of the several prizes will be
published oon
The arrangements made by Messrs. Cor
don & Richie to furnish the mostnove en-
tertainment of the season at Columbia
Gardens to-day are completed, and those
who visit this popular resort to-day will
have an opportunity for enjoyment such
as is rarely afforded.
Harry Osborne has concluded to remain
in Butte for the present. and, as is an
nounced in an advertisement elsewhere,
| will dispose of his book, 'Osborne's Oddi-
ties" by personal solicitation. He says
Everybody must nave one," and as the
price is only two bits it ought to be a 60.
Real estate men report the real estate
market as improving slightly. An inquiry
has sprung up for homes for permanent
occupancy, which would indicate that a
great many people are taking a sensible
view, and chat Butte is likely to benefit
materially by the railroad and other i'm
p~rovements o in progress and projected.
Last Thursday afternoon Kenneth Nc
Rae, who was at work on the new ore
chutes at the Modoc mine. had the misfor-
tune to have his left hand badly crushed by
a large piece of timber falling upon it and
crushing it against a::rail. The injury is
very painful and it will be some days be-
fore he will recover sufficiently to go to
work.
An incipient blaze in q confined yard in
the rear of the Windsor Hotel drew an i'm
mense crowd to the corner of Main and
Broadway last night. The fire must have
been started by an incendiary as no fire is
near the spot which was used for dumping
rubbish that is carried away every morn
ing. It was fortunately seen from the
street before it made any Roadway and was
easily e~xtinguished with a few buckets of
water.